Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: Business Name Ideas

What this industry covers

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional medical equipment, instruments, and supplies (except ophthalmic equipment and instruments and goods used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians).

Businesses classified here include

• Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers
• Artificial limbs merchant wholesalers
• Beds, hospital, merchant wholesalers
• Crutches merchant wholesalers
• Dental chairs merchant wholesalers
• Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Dentists' professional supplies merchant wholesalers
• Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
• Dressings, medical, merchant wholesalers
• Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers
• First-aid kits, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Glassware, medical, merchant wholesalers
• Hearing aids merchant wholesalers
• Home health care supplies merchant wholesalers
• Hospital beds merchant wholesalers
• Hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers
• Hospital gowns merchant wholesalers
• Industrial safety devices (e.g., eye shields, face shields, first-aid kits) merchant wholesalers
• Instruments, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
• Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
• Medical equipment merchant wholesalers
• Medical furniture merchant wholesalers
• Medical glassware merchant wholesalers
• Medical instruments merchant wholesalers
• Medical supplies (except household first-aid kits and non-surgical bandages) merchant wholesalers
• Orthopedic equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers
• Physicians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers

Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 423450), U.S. Census Bureau.

Name ideas for medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers

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Name words that fit, with their meanings

• Medical
• Dental
• Hospital
• Equipment
• Supply
• Trade
• Source
• Distribution
• Goods

U.S. business numbers

Locations by number of employees nationwide

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.

Top states for medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers

1. California 1,450 locations
2. Florida 1,172 locations
3. Texas 879 locations
4. New York 615 locations
5. Illinois 424 locations
6. New Jersey 372 locations
7. Pennsylvania 364 locations
8. Ohio 359 locations
9. North Carolina 344 locations
10. Georgia 331 locations

All 51 states

• Alabama (101)
• Alaska (15)
• Arizona (233)
• Arkansas (81)
• California (1,450)
• Colorado (233)
• Connecticut (108)
• Delaware (42)
• District of Columbia (16)
• Florida (1,172)
• Georgia (331)
• Hawaii (36)
• Idaho (58)
• Illinois (424)
• Indiana (210)
• Iowa (63)
• Kansas (89)
• Kentucky (108)
• Louisiana (154)
• Maine (31)
• Maryland (159)
• Massachusetts (220)
• Michigan (212)
• Minnesota (172)
• Mississippi (74)
• Missouri (177)
• Montana (49)
• Nebraska (69)
• Nevada (131)
• New Hampshire (49)
• New Jersey (372)
• New Mexico (48)
• New York (615)
• North Carolina (344)
• North Dakota (18)
• Ohio (359)
• Oklahoma (128)
• Oregon (92)
• Pennsylvania (364)
• Rhode Island (30)
• South Carolina (127)
• South Dakota (34)
• Tennessee (218)
• Texas (879)
• Utah (141)
• Vermont (11)
• Virginia (162)
• Washington (188)
• West Virginia (28)
• Wisconsin (159)
• Wyoming (15)

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